That's Old News

Femur Flutes, No Cheese For Me, And a Mystery Walrus


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Join Laurie and Ben this week as they talk through new discoveries that shed light on how the Bronze Age people of Britain commemorated their dead, new research into the origins of human lactase persistence and the mysterious case of Walrus remains buried with 3 human skulls in a victorian graveyard, enjoy!

Links

Bronze Age Burial Practices

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/01/bronze-age-britons-keepsakes-parts-dead-relatives-archaeologists

Lactase Persistence

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)31187-8?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982220311878%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

https://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/12031_ENG_HTML.php

Walrus

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p08qbzsm/the-walrus-found-in-a-human-grave

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